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In recent years we have observed an increasing number of head and neck malignancies with the primary lesion in the oropharynx (Bettinger et al. 1991). The main locations are the tonsils, the base of the tongue, the soft palate, and the pharyngeal wall (Table 1).
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von Ilberg, C. (1994). Surgery of Oropharyngeal Cancer. In: Pape, HD., Ganzer, U., Schmitt, G. (eds) Carcinoma of the Oral Cavity and Oropharynx. Recent Results in Cancer Research, vol 134. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-84971-8_5
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